Show AS INVASION RUSSIA the blast from the ural mountains which started out on a wild hurrah a few weeks ago has nearly half boua its journey around the world it baa pursued a contrary direction from the earth in its diurnal revolution but has not had to its pace in the slightest because ot the opposition it swept swiftly across the steppes 0 kubia it roared through the forests of germany it boisterously among the bills and plains of franc the chock of its repulse at the bay of biscay sent a division scattering across the channel into Brita inand another its devious way through the pyrenees Pyre nees quickly callec ting its forces again f r further conquests it cleared the broad atlantic at a single bound and spread devastation among the coast cities of america new york lias met and succumbed to the scourge so lias quebec boston baltimore and charleston detroit found the invader at her doors before she knew whence to expect or how to meet the assault bt louis gave up without further resistance than a snort and a groan and now the good people of kansas chiy as well as the burglars are moved by a common impulse not to yield to the enemy from alie trans until defence is found to be impossible dinver is marked as the next conquest of the antagonist a he cornea gillopine gil loping up the plains and then and til n if we have tears let us prepare to shed them BOW and if we are short ot handkerchiefs now is the time to lay in a needed supply for the triumphant stranger is none other than the grip variously described as la grippe and asiatic catarrh its symptoms are described in our dis patches this morning anybody will know it by he frequent recurrence of those greatest 0 all a desire to sneeze when you cannot accomplish com it and a desire to keep from sneezing when you know you must let er go while the attack does not aud fatally it runs at a lively paca from four to ten days and then kwea on As a matter of fact it is not altogether a stranger ia america for bis tory narrates that it us a visit a hundred years ago rudely intruding infelt into the capacious but by no means inquisitive nose 0 the father of his country the theory that it has an orbit like a comet and at periods of one hundred years is upset however by the tact that the union buttered from a visitation during the of john tyler when it was called the tyler grip new york almost sneezed its lueada off that time an epidemic of he decabo deca ao also started in china in 1830 and reaching ras fiann 1831 got to this country ia 1832 travel being slower in those days tor influenza ag for men there were also epidemics of the disease la LJ robein 1836 and ia 1817 As the insidious seems to have a fondness for urge enters ogden need not expect to escape it is it is aggravating it is undignified and inexorable worst of all it la unpatriotic for wherever it ikea its victims whatever their allegiance and principles are forced whenever the czar of cussia to eleeze also and to blow their nose |